boy or new york boy. un, he's from texas. and -- >> rose: he's talked before how the "n" workforce used against him all the time. >> year, he's experienced race-- we're close enough in the same age he was-- he knows what it's like to be black in the 70s, which still had its rough places, especially in the south. so one, he got the piece 100%. he really knew what i was trying to do with django. >> rose: and what were you trying to do with django? >> well, just the story itself. you know, i wanted to-- i wanted to go into the bleakest time of america's history, the truly-- the biggest sin that the country committed and the sin that we're still paying for to this day, we haven't gotten past the sin. part of the reason we haven't gotten past it is we have to almost lie about it, lie by omission. and i wanted to throw out there on the table. i wanted to take a modern-day audience and stick them in the antebellum south and see what america america was like at that time in that part country. and deal-- now, i want to do it in an ent